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Digital Realty is broadening its international footprint, according to Michael Foust, CEO at Digital Realty. "There's a lot of demand that's unmet for data center facilities, especially from both domestic as well as international companies," he says. The REIT has five centers in the Asia Pacific and is "looking very hard" at new markets, such as China.

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Digital Realty Trust announced it was acquiring Telx Group. The $1.89 billion deal would be the largest in the data-center sector since Equinix's $3.6 billion acquisition of TelecityGroup, announced in May. Telx Group managed 20 data-center facilities at the end of March, and more than half were leased from Digital Realty.

Sean Tully, managing director of interest rate products with the CME Group, discusses the company's product line and how its role as central clearinghouse benefits REITs in this video. "We built our service with equal input from both the buy side and the sell side," he says.

Sara Neff, director of sustainability programs with Kilroy Realty Corp., discusses the evolving role sustainability has played at the REIT in this video. "Portfolio manager and energy star benchmarking has been the foundation for all of our efforts," she says.

U.S. REITs posted solid returns for the first quarter even though they slightly underperformed the larger equity market, says Brad Case, NAREIT's senior vice president of research and industry information. On a 12-month basis ended March 28, REITs outperformed equities.